Subject: Re: bug#74361: [PATCH] New option xref-navigation-display-window-action

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:10:34 -0600

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>>>> Do you mean that the users might want to shoot themselves in the foot
>>>> and remove '(category . comint)' from the default value of
>>>> display-comint-buffer-action?
>>>
>>> Yes, that's the scenario that bothers me.  Users could do that without
>>> understanding the subtleties of the issue.
>>>
>>>> Then indeed we need to move '(category . comint)' directly
>>>> to every display-buffer call that currently uses
>>>> display-comint-buffer-action.
>>>
>>> I think we should do that for Emacs 31, yes.
>>
>> Ok, here is the patch for Emacs 31:
>>
>> diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
>> +*** The user option 'display-comint-buffer-action' has been removed.
>> +It has been obsolete since Emacs 30.1.  Use '(category . comint)' instead.
>> +Another user option 'display-tex-shell-buffer-action' has been removed too
>> +for which you can use '(category . tex-shell)'.
>
> This patch is now pushed to master.

Is there anything left to do here, or should the bug be closed?